Workshop: Day 11


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(Week 3, Monday)
10:10 N is starting the day off with P again. N passed P the firewordsV.gif, and Pt/N’s video edit for waterbody and waterscene3.mov.
We are waiting for others to arrive. N is a little nervous: today is our last day with everyone, all day (am-pm) in this space. (Other rehearsals will be in the evenings, during school with various people missing.) The only good news with the evening rehearsals is that maybe Pt can come. Someone from the Center wants the projector back tomorrow morning. Do we still have Theatre Dell to use?

 
M, K, Mk, then B arrive.
(K motivates return ..N thought?)
Mk re-records lost bits of the sound for the water scene, while B setting up for Fire. Everyone coping and fixing.
B goes outside for a smoke, the dancers are ready and do not know that they don’t need him as the tiles are all set—that’s what I do---keep them communicating, keep things moving forward.
 
We are testing where the words will fall on the dancers.
N fixes word ‘speech’ again (it takes forever to fix on bogged down laptop).

A Happy Exchange: or how hard it can be to schedule/herd cats:

N to M: “are you leaving?”
M: “I’m afraid so, I have to take my daughter/dog to the vet. You don’t need me after Fire, right?’
N: “Well,it’s up to you what you want to do about Air.”
M: “Oh yeah, right. How long is B going to be here?”
N: “Why don’t you ask him?”
M: “B, how long are you going to be here?”
B: “1:30ish”
M: “Oh, right then” (see you tomorrow)
But the tricky thing is that B was not coming back in tomorrow or much at all that week. Some had lost their chance to work with tightly scheduled the reactive media artist and would have to take whatever time was available to rehearse. (That’s what happens when you take an unscheduled leave during rehearsal. When you make your own schedule you have to be willing to loose time with valuable human resources and find ways to rehearse on your own—which is what M ended up doing later.) It was like herding cats.

 
K oks the Fire text animation.  
N tells E she can look at walls/screens in the theatre and see what’s playing while she’s dancing. (E starts to get bad back.)
Water media: Waterbody needs to have new dissolves, cross fades not wipes. K wanted the H2Obody more complex…N very happy to redo it closer to the original –more images but shorter time. N wants to do own video editing for water not P or Pt.
N and K have a waterbody fill discussion finding the images that play well, like intense colors. K and N like the idea of putting the sparkle inside her at the end of the piece. K (and N) misses the diversity of footage in waterbody Ken comments to P “Her technical advisors told her not to.” N is glad to bring back: bubbles, ice, greenwater, water, fish, ocean, and fingers of anemones. K wants fish etc to synchronize to the dancers moves or vise versa.

Water Test
Water Test 2